Kathleen Jamie: New Landmarks

Scotland’s Makar and leading nature writer Kathleen Jamie returns to the Festival with a new book, Cairn. Microessays, prose poems, and fieldnotes are the stones with which Jamie builds her book: a cairn of her own making. This new way of writing offers a different viewpoint as Jamie continues to observe the natural world. Join Jamie in conversation with Esa Aldegheri as they discuss her latest work.

Categories: Environment/Nature, Nonfiction, Poetry

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Poetry & Performance

Our line-up this year is a brilliant demonstration of everything exciting in UK poetry: diverse, eclectic in form and content, and ranging from ‘the best words, in the best order’ (to quote John Donne) to poems which demand to be spoken and lifted from the page completely…

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